The King's Messenger, Or, Lawrence Temple's Probation: A Story of Canadian LifeW. Briggs, 1897 - 177 pages |
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... Sweet was the light of his eyes , but it suddenly sank into darkness , As when a lamp is blown out by a gust of wind at a casement . " He fell back on the arm of his weeping wife . On his countenance rested a look of ineffable peace ...
... Sweet was the light of his eyes , but it suddenly sank into darkness , As when a lamp is blown out by a gust of wind at a casement . " He fell back on the arm of his weeping wife . On his countenance rested a look of ineffable peace ...
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asked Lawrence backwoods Baptiste beneath Bible bless called Canadian Centreville CHAPTER Christ Christian Christmas Church d'ye dark Dennis O'Neal doxology dram earth exclaimed eyes face Father Hawkins feel fellow felt forest gave give hand head heart heaven holy Hophni hymn Indian Jesus Jim Dowler Kewaydin KING'S MESSENGER know'd labour light little Martha look Lord LUMBER CAMP lumbermen Mary Matt Evans Mattawa Methodist mother mournin Muskoka never night Northville Ottawa papooses Perkins pine poor pray prayer preach preacher Quebec replied Lawrence Rideau Canal river rose roulant ma boule seemed shanty shore Shure sing smoke snow solemn soon soul spirit story Sunday talked tavern tears Temple Thornville thought timber timber slides Timple toil trees uncon voice wailin walked Wesley's wigwam wind winter woods words ye're young
Popular passages
Page 6 - Trust in the Lord, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
Page 58 - THE groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave. And spread the roof above them, — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.
Page 80 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long. And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallowed and so gracious is the time.
Page 7 - God will direct our thoughts and desires to the 'King in His beauty, and the land that is very far off.
Page 162 - A Creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food ; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Page 6 - Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
Page 40 - A CLERK ther was of Oxenford also, That un-to logik hadde longe y-go. As lene was his hors as is a rake, And he nas nat right fat, I undertake; But loked holwe, and ther-to soberly.
Page 157 - And he opened The bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke Of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason Of the smoke of the pit.
Page 174 - FORTH in thy name, O Lord, I go, My daily labour to pursue ; Thee, only thee, resolved to know, In all I think, or speak, or do.